Cheney vs. the Peaceniks

[rodeodance]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/08/19/BL2005081900835.html?referrer=email


washingtonpost.com

Cheney vs. the Peaceniks

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Friday, August 19, 2005; 12:18 PM

With President Bush kicking back at his ranch, the task of nipping a nascent antiwar movement in the bud fell to Vice President Cheney yesterday, and he went at it with his typical gusto.

To the extent that Cindy Sheehan and other supporters of an Iraqi pullout aim to start a national conversation about American options in Iraq, Cheney made it very clear that as far as he's concerned, that conversation only extends this far: Are you with us or are you against us?

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Casting the war in Iraq as a battle in the same great tradition as the Revolutionary War -- and as a natural response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks -- Cheney likened any retreat from the administration's current policies to "turn over the future of mankind to tiny groups of fanatics committing indiscriminate murder, enslaving whole populations, oppressing women, imposing an ideology of hatred on an entire region, and arming to create death and destruction on an unbelievable scale."

And the only thinkable way to honor the wounded and the dead in Iraq is to fight to the end, he said. "Every man and woman who fights and sacrifices in this war is serving a just and noble cause. This nation will always be grateful to them, and we will honor their sacrifice by completing our mission."......

[wtbymark]

1. orwellian?

"turn over the future of mankind to tiny groups of fanatics committing indiscriminate murder, enslaving whole populations, oppressing women, imposing an ideology of hatred on an entire region, and arming to create death and destruction on an unbelievable scale."

This is exactly what happened in the Untied States

[Lubernaut]

2. Precisely!

That's exactly what I thought when I reas his statement! Very auto-biographical.

[opihimoimoi]

3. Pure pysopesque talk....Sounds good but evil intentions to FOOL

is under the skin....

[newyawker99]

4. Hi Lubernaut!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Lubernaut]

6. Thanks!

Happy to be here.

[imperialismispasse]

5. A natural response to 9/11

So if I get punched in the mouth by guy A, I should turn around and punch guy B? Cheney is nuts.

[geckosfeet]

7. So long guy B is brown, has a middle eastern accent, dresses

differently than you and is from a country with lots of oil. If guy B is a white guy you may have to punch out guy C with extra gusto.

Welcome to DU.

[imperialismispasse]

8. Thanks.

The "logic" is mind blowing.

[geckosfeet]

9. I am not sure logic has any place in this discussion.